Ukraine Is Working On A 1,200-Mile Missile

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, newly-independent Ukraine scrambled to provide for its own defense. The flurry of new weapons programs included at least one effort to produce a ground-launched, long-range cruise missile in the class of the American Tomahawk. An autonomous precision munition that could strike enemy targets a thousand miles away or farther.

Nothing came of the Yuzhnoye State Design Bureau’s Korshun cruise-missile project—unless, of course, you count the successful Iranian espionage effort that smuggled plans for the…